Obamessiah!
In [political science professor Roger] Boesche's European politics class, [classmate Ken] Sulzer said he was impressed at how few notes [italics mine] Obama took. "Where I had five pages, Barry had probably a paragraph of the pithiest, tightest prose you'd ever see. … It was very short, very sweet. Obviously somebody almost Clintonesque in being able to sum a whole lot of concepts and place them into a succinct written style."The man must be a savant. Just like me.
Perhaps my college friends from the Academy for Fancy Lads shall one day testify how I was able to sit through entire lectures on Renaissance architecture and take no notes at all, except for, say, one extremely significant sketch of a frog-man wearing ringmail and shooting a grenade launcher at a dump truck full of snakes, or maybe linguine.
Sometimes, my friends would tell you, I would be able to absorb an entire lecture in a mystical trance state...taking no notes at all, but rather closing my eyes and just letting the words wash over me. Often I would become so absorbed in the interplay of concepts that my head would begin to move slowly downwards, then sharply upwards, several times, and tiny drops of pure liquid-crystallized knowledge would form in my mouth and drip onto my notebook below. This way, rather than studying, I could just touch my tongue to the braindrool-stains before the final exam, and instantly recall the breadth and scope of human knowledge. It gave me more time for drinking beer and playing Angband.
Now, when people ask me about my GPA in utter disbelief, I tell them all this and they understand.
H/T Michelle.